[IronPython] IronPython for ASP.Net

[Dody Gunawinata]

The refresh was unusable because it contained the version of IronPyton that
is not compatible with .Net 3.5 framework (I think it was built on IP 2.0
Beta 3/4);

I'm griping about this issue in this list because I don't think this is a
completely separate issue from the DLR programming languages. Maybe it is
not a direct responsibility of this team, but the impact is direct for the
following reasons:

   - Nobody adopts a language as is. The libraries matters. The existing
   community of Python and Ruby are not going to move to Windows platform just
   because IronPython and IronRuby are being worked on and released. They have
   had a multi platform runtimes with de facto standards that are capable of
   doing wonderful things for more than a decade.
   - There is much bigger market for language adoption for existing
   .Net/Windows based developers (and new developers) and these guys/gals are
   using mostly standard Microsoft stacks. And they are using .Net via mainly
   C# and VB.Net. If the DLR languages do not have proper support at least for
   the major technology stacks (I would consider ASP.Net/Silverlight as major
   stacks), many people will not consider using the DLR based language for
   their production systems.
   - I know ASP.Net MVC is open source and it's free to be extended etc, but
   ASP.Net WebForm have be en deployed massively and that's not going to change
   anytime soon. And theres is already a support, albeit poor and not up to
   date, for ASP.Net webform stacks in IronPython. Not having it fully updated
   is a waste of opportunity.
   - .Net 4.0 and C# vNext contains dynamic language support but really,
   what is good for if the DLR languages can only be used in much more limited
   scenarios because some major technology stacks are not supported.
   - You raised correctly that Django and  RoR are being used to validate
   the  languages. But I would argue that the existing technology stack support
   validates the DLR platform, not just the languages.

So yes, I'm not happy with the level of investment being put on supporting
the technology stacks because I think it is pretty short sighted. No, I
don't blame this team for this but at least if I complain on this list, it
might have a chance being forwarded internally because this is one of the
best community mailing list for Microsoft technologies.

Dody Gunawinata

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Jimmy Schementi <
Jimmy.Schementi at microsoft.com> wrote:

> First off, it hasn’t been three years: a refresh was released 8 months ago,
> and sent to this very list:
>
>
> http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2008-September/008497.html
>
>
>
> Secondly, rather than just producing these one off releases (where are very
> taxing on the team), we’re doing it right and getting the source code
> released and Ms-Pl’d, so we can include it on Codeplex sources, builds, and
> nightly builds. Then it can be included in each IronPython release, just
> like Silverlight binaries are.
>
>
>
> Lastly, IronRuby and IronPython are programming languages, made by
> programming language teams. We’re very interested in running as many
> existing Ruby and Python programs as possible. It just so happens that
> Django and Rails are popular, complex pieces of software that help find
> bugs, and give the languages street cred for running them. If those web
> frameworks didn’t run, theirs probably something wrong with our language.
>
>
>
> Running in ASP.NET and MVC require a significant amount of work *outside*of the language, so it really isn’t a language team’s purpose to build that.
> Sure they provide good demos as conferences or blog posts, but they’ll only
> be toys. We’ve invested in those technologies before, which is why the
> ASP.NET and Silverlight integration exists, but no one is working on
> enabling web-technologies full-time (though I have spurts of diving back
> into Silverlight from time to time). If you don’t like the level of
> investment in dynamic languages for Microsoft web technologies, that’s
> something that you should communicate to the ASP.NET team; Phil Haack (
> http://www.haacked.com) or Dmitry Robsman (http://blogs.msdn.com/dmitryr)
> are good people to address.
>
>
>
> ~Jimmy
>
>
>
> *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:
> users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] *On Behalf Of *Dody Gunawinata
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:22 PM
> *To:* Discussion of IronPython
> *Subject:* [IronPython] IronPython for ASP.Net
>
>
>
> Is there any update for IronPython for ASP.Net?
>
>
>
> It has been three years since IronPython support for ASP.Net introduced
> with the release of the whitepaper (
> http://www.asp.net/DynamicLanguages/whitepaper/) and the first binary.
> Since then I think we've had Katrina, a Beijing Olympic, a new President, a
> financial collapse and two James Bond movies - yet until now there is still
> no up to date support for the technology. I know that the legal team, etc
> are working on the source release, but I think it is pretty galling that
> Microsoft's own web framework stack is barely supported by its own dynamic
> language technology, both on the 'classic' ASP.Net and MVC stack. I mean
> there is more energy put into having IronPython and IronRuby to run Django
> and RubyOnRails web framework instead of ASP.Net stack. This just doesn't
> make sense to me.
>
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